thumb|Different representations of chromosomes thumb|Main parts of a condensed chromosome thumb|212x212px|Condensed chromosome (purple rod) inside a bone marrow erythrokaryocyte undergoing mitosis
A chromosome is a structure inside cells that contains DNA and carries the genes needed to build and maintain an organism. Chromosomes matter because they're how genetic information is organized and passed on from one cell to another, including from parents to offspring.
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thumb|Different representations of chromosomes thumb|Main parts of a condensed chromosome thumb|212x212px|Condensed chromosome (purple rod) inside a bone marrow erythrokaryocyte undergoing mitosis
thumb|upright=0.9|Diagram of a duplicated and condensed metaphase eukaryotic chromosome:
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).